Thank you for your responses. By "shrinking" my picture size I mean that I took them at Large resolution and superfine compression with my Canon powershot s 40. (GREAT camera by the way), so I can print them and frame them. All files are jpg format My file sizes are HUGE! So what I mean is that I want a picture which will fill my whole screen, look sharp and be a very small file size. So by shrinking, I mean to make my final show size smaller. Any suggestions or tips? Is 800x600 what is recommended? Does XATSHOW have as good a music synchronization as does pictures2exe? Is it possible to have a cd disk that will play on BOTH comptuers and DVDS? And finally, I looked at media show...that saves it as mpegs, correct? wouldn't the file sizes be enormous? And is the picture quality as good when you play full screen? THANK YOU!!!!!!!!